On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:15:19AM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>> The committed patches look sane to me, but should we back-patch into 11?
>> This isn't quite a bug fix maybe, but it's inconsistent if v11 server &
>> docs recommend this syntax while v11 psql doesn't produce it.
>
> I was going to suggest backpatching it, as I consider it a bug in the
> original implementation, if not critical. Making it harder for people
> to use the recommended syntax than the deprecated one is not nice.
I didn't think that this was much of a big deal as the deprecated
grammar is still supported on v11, but as both of you think in this
sense I am fine to patch REL_11_STABLE as well. Please just wait a
bit...
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Michael